Court Session 10: Testimony by the Accuser

This time, Michael Jackson entered the courtroom wearing a red jacket and a black armband, accompanied by his mother, father, and his brother Tito.

Thomas Mesereau, Michael Jackson’s lead attorney, spent the entire day in court challenging the credibility of the accuser’s statements, who had been called to the witness stand for the third time. The accuser, who had a difficult day with Mesereau, was accused by him of fabricating a story about sexual abuse after being rejected by Michael as his son. The defense attorney accused the accuser of drinking alcohol, stealing, and lying to the police. He also brought charges against him and his brother for entering Michael Jackson’s home rooms without permission and for stealing bottles containing alcohol.

“When you raised the allegations of sexual abuse, wasn’t it the time when you realized that you, your mother, your brother, and your sister could not be part of Michael Jackson’s family?”

“No, I didn’t want to be part of Michael Jackson’s family. I never wanted to. I looked at him as a father, and he looked at me as a son.”

With a louder and firmer voice, Mesereau asked, “And when you left Neverland for the last time, did you feel that you were being pushed away by your father?”

“No, I didn’t need him. I didn’t want him.”

“Whenever you were interviewed, your stories about drinking alcohol got worse and worse. Your stories kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.”

“No, the truth is that we drank alcohol every night when Michael was there.”

Mesereau pointed out similarities between quotes the accuser said were attributed once to his grandmother and once to Michael Jackson.

In previous court sessions, the accuser had claimed that Jackson told him, “If men don’t do sexual acts with themselves, they might end up raping a woman.”

Mesereau stated in court that during the accuser’s interviews with the Santa Barbara Police Department investigators, he had claimed that this statement belonged to his grandmother.

“Why did your story change from the time you did those interviews until the time you testified in the witness stand last Tuesday?”

“It didn’t change. Because Michael first tried to explain it to me.”

The witness said that both his grandmother and Michael Jackson had told him similar things, but with slight differences.

“She (the grandmother) told me that it’s not a problem, but Michael told me that I should do it.”

Mesereau said in court that the accuser had stated during his interrogations that the abuse happened before the filming of the second part of the documentary “Living with Michael Jackson,” while on the witness stand he had said the date was after the documentary was filmed.

The accuser said that as a 13-year-old boy, he wasn’t sure of the exact date these allegations occurred, and even today he said, “I don’t remember exactly when it happened.”

The accuser accepted that two years ago he told his school principal that “Jackson didn’t do anything to him.” But he denied the allegation of “reading obscene magazines and doing sexual acts with another boy” when Michael Jackson was not there.

Several Jackson employees had claimed that they saw the accuser doing these acts.

He also said that he had never asked Jay Leno for financial help.

As Michael Jackson was leaving the courtroom, he said he was still suffering from back pain.

“My back is really stiff. I’m in pain.”

Source: eMJey.com / Associated Press & Reuters